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Prof. Sridhar Raju

Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Characterization of Polymer Modified Bitumen and Asphalt Mixtures with Warm Mix Additives, Utilization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in Bituminous Mixtures, Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design of Flexible Pavements, Design and Evaluation of Airfield Pavement, Investigations on Failure of Pavements, Utilization of Geo synthetics for Design of Flexible Pavements, Evaluation of Rigid and Flexible Pavements for Pavement Maintenance, Super pave Mixture Design for long lasting flexible pavements, Alternative Bituminous Mixtures

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

sridhar.raju@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

040-66303682

Ongoing Projects

“Development of Deterioration Model for Top-Down Cracking in Bituminous Surfaces” (Rs. 1,55,10,000/- as a Principal Investigator and Dr. Akshay Gundla as a Co-Principal Investigator) as a part of the Project - “Development of Damage Prediction-based Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guidelines for India” (Rs.10,58,69,000/-) sponsored by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, New Delhi (March 2023 to December 2026)
Mitigation strategy to counter top-down cracking due to non-uniform contact stresses in Flexible Pavements (Rs. 26,50,000/- as a Principal Investigator and Dr. Chandu Parimi as a Co-Principal Investigator). Sponsored by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), New Delhi (August 2020 - December 2023).

Completed Projects

Experimental investigation of half warm asphalt mixture using polymer bitumen emulsions - laboratory studies (Rs. 2,00,000/- as a Principal Investigator) Research Initiation Grant (RIG400) sponsored by BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Start date: 4th September 2015 Date of completion: 31st March 2018.
Preparation of state-of-the-art report (SOAR) on utilization of higher percentage of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in hot asphalt mixes (HAM) with warm mix additives - laboratory and field evaluation (Rs. 6,25,000/ - as a Principal Investigator) - Sponsored by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRT&H). Start date: 15th September 2017 Date of Completion: 23rd January 2019.
Semi field evaluation of geo-composite drainage layer (GDL) as a sub - base for sustainable pavement construction (Rs. 4,00,000/ - as a Principal investigator). Sponsored by M /s. Strata Geosystems (India) Private Limited, Mumbai. Start date: 15th December 2019 End date: 15th June 2021.
Laboratory performance of bituminous mixtures with shell bio-based additive (Rs. 8,61,400/- as a Principal Investigator). Sponsored by Shell India Markets Private Limited, Bangalore. Start date: 21st December 2021 - End date: 31st December 2022
Feasibility study to assess the use of waste plastic aggregate in the design and performance of BC-I and BC-II mixtures for sustainable pavements (Rs. 6,50,000/- as a Principal Investigator). Sponsored by K.K Waste Management Private Limited, Bengaluru, India. Start date: 1st September 2021 - End date: 31st August 2022.
Field Evaluation on the Effect of Binder Reduction due to Traffic Movement and its effect on Binder Aging (Rs. 9,90,000/ - as a Principal investigator and Dr. Prasanta Sahu as a Co-Principal Investigator) - Sponsored by the office of Engineer - in - Chief, Roads and Buildings Department, Government of Telangana. Start date: 1st June 2019. End date: 31st May 2021.
Evaluation of the efficiency of Bacterial Inclusions in Concrete (Rs. 11,70,000/- as a Co-Principal Investigator and Dr. Arkamitra Kar as a Principal Investigator), Sponsored by M/s. Aliens Group, Hyderabad. Start date: 10th August 2019 - End date: 9th August 2022.

Consultancy Projects

Six Laning of National Corridor NH 19 from Panagarh to Palsit from Km. 521+120 to Km. 588+870 (Total Design Length 67.750 Km) in the state of West Bengal under Bharatmala Pariyojana Civil & Associated works on EPC basis - Vetting of Bituminous mix designs (7 mixture designs, Rs. 2,06,500/- as Principal Investigator).
Vetting of SMA Design Mix, Rutting rectification works of E Taxi GMR Airfield (Rs. 1,41,600/- as a Principal Investigator). Sponsored by the Vishwasamudra India Pvt Ltd., Telangana. Start date: October 2022
Rutting Analysis for BC-I mix using HINCOL PMB as per AASHTO T324 (Rs. 88,500/- as a Principal Investigator). Sponsored by the HG Infra Engineering Ltd. Start date: September 2022
Design of Bituminous mixture as per BC-I grading with PG76E-10 binder for Mancherial site, Telangana State (Rs. 88,500/- as a Principal Investigator). Sponsored by the TikkiTar-Shell India, Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Start date: August 2022 – Date of completion: September 2022.

Design of Bituminous mixture as per BC-II grading with PG76E-10 for Radial road ext-7, R&B Department, Telangana State (Rs. 88,500/- as a Principal Investigator). Sponsored by the Roads and Buildings Department, Radial roads, Government of Telangana, India. Start date: January 2022. Date of completion: March 2022.
Design of Bituminous mixture as per BC-II grading with PG76E-10 binder for Bijapur road, R&B Department, Telangana State (Rs. 88,500/- as a Principal Investigator). Sponsored by the Roads and Buildings Department, Goshamahal, Government of Telangana, India. Start date: January 2022. Date of completion: March 2022.
The assessment of the quality of VG30, VG40, PMB40, and PG76E-10 grade binders (Rs. 1,29,300/- Principal Investigator). Sponsored by M/s. Bitumen Corporation India (BITCOL) Pvt Ltd, Mumbai. Start date: November 2021. Date of completion: February 2022.
Design of Bituminous mixture as per BC-I grading with both the PG76E-10 and VG30 binders for Yadadri temple flyover, R&B Department, Telangana State (Rs. 88,500/- as a Principal Investigator). Sponsored by Roads and Buildings Department, Bhongiri, Government of Telangana, India. Start date: November 2021. Date of completion: December 2021.
Collection of additional Bituminous core samples from the Agapally to Kalwakurthy road as a part of the quality audit (Rs. 66,080/- as a Principal investigator). Sponsored by the office of Engineer-in-Chief, Roads and Buildings Department, Government of Telangana. Start date: January 2021. Date of completion: February 2021.
Testing Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) material for bituminous mixtures (Rs. 27,750/- as a Principal investigator). Sponsored by M/s. Ashoka Buildcon, Nashik. Start date: July 2017. Date of completion: August 2017.
Collection of additional Bituminous core samples from the Maheswaram gate to Thimmapuram road as a part of the quality audit (Rs. 59,000/- as a Principal investigator). Sponsored by the office of Engineer-in-Chief, Roads and Buildings Department, Government of Telangana. Start date: January 2021. Date of completion: February 2021.
Assessment of damages to the highway property at GMR Pochampalli expressway on NH - 44 (Rs. 3,10,000/- as a Principal investigator) sponsored by M/s. Team Insurance Surveyors and Loss, New Delhi. Start date: October 2020. Date of completion: March 2021.
Inspection and quality audit report for the roads from Maheshwaram gate to Thimmapuram road and Agapally to Kalwakurthy Road (Rs. 2,50,000/- as a Principal investigator). Sponsored by the office of Engineer-in-Chief, Roads and Buildings Department, Government of Telangana. Start date: February 2020. Date of completion: October 2020.
Consultancy report on repair of rain-damaged stabilized Wet Mix Macadam (WMM) layer near Lucknow, Basti, UP. (Rs. 47,200/- as a Principal investigator) Sponsored by M/s. P.P. Pandey Infrastructure Private Limited, Lucknow. Start date: January 2020. Date of completion: February 2020.
Testing of soil for Palamuru RangaReddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS) project (Rs. 81,96,000/- as a Member). Sponsored by M/s. Palamuru RangaReddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS), Irrigation Department, Telangana State. Start date: October 2016 Date of completion: September 2019.
Laboratory Testing of Aggregate (Rs. 1,29,800/- as a Principal investigator). Sponsored by M/s. Palamuru RangaReddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS), Irrigation Department, Telangana State. Start date: August 2017. Date of completion: October 2017.
Bitumen & Aggregate Testing (Rs. 51,000/- as a Principal investigator). Sponsored by M/s. Ashoka Buildcon, Nashik. Start date: August 2018. Date of completion: October 2018.
Proof Checking of Vehicle UnderPass (VUP) (Rs. 1,80,000/- as a Member). Sponsored by M/s. GeoSewa, Hyderabad. Start date: December 2017 - Date of completion: March 2018.
Proof checking of Bridges (Rs. 11,21,000/- as a Member). Sponsored by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services. Start date: August 2017 - Date of completion: November 2017.

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